The phenomenology of Max Scheler has remained largely in the background of the phenomenological movement since World War II. Even
today, no detailed study is available. There are two reasons for this.
(1) The German Collected Edition of his works progressed slowly
from 1954 while the fast growing phenomenological movement in Europe concentrated on Heidegger, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty and Sartre. International availability of their works had been promoted
by the second generation of phenomenologists who had known them
in person. This is especially true of the phenomenology of Husserl
whose work was promoted by Van Breda and Cairns and, in their
wake, by Gadamer, Gurwitsch, Spiegelberg, Landgrebe, Strauss, and
other American and European scholars. (2) Scheler never offered a
detailed presentation of his phenomenology, except in two essays from 1911 and 1914, "Lehre von den drei Tatsachen" and "Phänomenologie
und Erkenntnistheorie" ( X377-502/PE 136-287).

Throughout his works, however, Scheler made numerous references
to phenomenology and to the fledgling phenomenological movement
in Göttingen and the part he played in it before and during World
War I. A first discussion with Husserl ( VII, 307-11) who is often
referred to as the "father" of phenomenology, occurred in 1901. It
centered on the concepts of intuition (Anschauung) and perception. Scheler, who was fifteen years younger than Husserl, outlined to him
his own novel concept of intuition. Scheler's explanation was that
the scope of intuition extended beyond its possible sensible components and logical forms. Husserl in turn remarked that he too had
come up with an analogous extension of intuition, probably referring to his categorial intuition of his Logische Untersuchungen ( 1900/
01). Between 1910 and 1916 Husserl strongly recommended Scheler
on various career opportunities. But by the end of World War I, the
relationship had cooled remarkably and it remained that way. As a
free lance-writer from 1910 to 1919, Scheler had an astonishing record
of publications that spread his name quickly throughout Europe.

Although Scheler harbored severe reservations about Husserl's phenomenology, he acknowledged and praised him on occasion. This

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